Oh no, not again

[sunny]

Hurricane Wilma winds now 175 mph!<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/?from=wxcenter_news">www.weather.com/newscente...enter_news</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>I don't know how much more the Gulf Coast can stand. I can't afford to evacuate again, but what else can I do? I'll have to leave town because of the children and then come back and not be able to afford the rent. The projected path has it taking a sharp ne turn toward Florida, who have, God knows, taken their share of hits, but who knows, it could come right up Mobile Bay. Katrina wasn't as bad here as it was in La. and Miss., but it was bad enough. My Mom, neighbor, and former mother-in-law all had trees crash through their houses. Downtown Mobile was under 4 ft. of water, and many of us were without power for at least a week.<br>Please, all of you pray, or meditate, or whatever else you do to bring blessings and luck to the Gulf Coast. <br>Thanks, <br>Sonya<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=sunny@rigorousintuition>sunny</A> at: 10/19/05 7:47 am<br></i>

[Avalon]

Best of luck to you and yours, Sunny. You'll be in our thoughts and prayers. Let us know that you're okay when you get back. <p></p><i></i>

[sunny]

Thanks Avalon, I'll do just that, and for good measure, this time I'm taking my computer with me, tight squeeze be damned!<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

[heath7]

Sorry to hear about the hardships. I'm happy your family is okay.<br><br>Have you thought about moving?<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> I don't think these storms are going anywhere, this season or next. Its like their norm now to swell right up into category 5s (did they do that in 1935, the other record year?)<br><br>Stay safe. We'll be thinking of you. Stay <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :hat --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/pimp.gif ALT=":hat"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Rigorous Intuition]

<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/10/19/wilma-update051019.html">CBC News</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->:<br><br>Hurricane Wilma strengthened dramatically into a Category 5 storm Wednesday, with forecasters saying the "potentially catastrophic" storm was the most powerful weather system ever recorded in the Atlantic basin.<br><br>Within less than 18 hours, Wilma grew from a tropical storm showing winds of under 119 km/h to the strongest level of hurricane capable of being recorded on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, packing <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>sustained winds of about 282 km/h</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<br><br>The storm had a minimum air pressure reading of <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>882 millibars</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> early Wednesday, according to instruments a U.S. Air Force plane carried into the storm system. <p></p><i></i>

[thumperton]

what's the sentiment on this board. Man-made phenomenom? <p></p><i></i>

[AnnaLivia]

you sure are in my thoughts, sweet, and my memory works well in THAT arena. not a day goes by i don't wish caring wishes into the universe for those still suffering from ALL these disasters. SO many people without homes, and homes so precious!!<br><br>if worse came to worse, well, we're having fine weather in iowa right now. anna's shelter is always open. (now if we could just get those bloody evil Canucks to keep their alberta clippers to themselves.)<br><br>i'd be exhausted from repeated evacuations. this year adds new meaning to "when it rains, it pours". yes, stay safe!<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[sunny]

Thanks to all of you for your thoughts and prayers, and I will add vehement ones of my own for wherever it makes landfall. <p></p><i></i>

[marykmusic]

We're working on winding this one down. Don't believe what the media says, especially when they start using the phrase "NEAR 160 mph" which can be any number over 100. Like Rita before, they are screaming death and destruction as it builds up, then hanging on to every little thing as it loses power. They so badly want it to be terrible, and have little tantrums as they lose control.<br><br>BTW, Sunny, know anyone in Mobile named DuBose? My daughter has that family name in her top-side pedigree, from there. --MaryK <p></p><i></i>

[sunny]

maryk, I <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>know of</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> some Dubose's in Mobile, but I know an African American family very well from my hometown of Deer Park, about 50 miles north of here.<br>BTW, I felt that the hype over Dennis was a big put-up job, we left town and spent all kinds of money, only to have less "weather" from it than we did from tropical storm Cindy the previous week. My son joked that it had been a gubmint conspiracy to make people buy fuel and Little Debbie's. Ha! His mothers' son. <p></p><i></i>

[marykmusic]

Mmmmmm... Nutty Bars!<br><br>The DuBose family was (I was told) a plantation family that had been in the Mobile area for a long time... so yes, that black family is probably related, as well. The original name was DuBois.<br><br>The hype over Wilma is another put-up job. We got a report from a friend in Key West that they are already putting out the evacuation order. As if they KNOW this hurricane will hook around.<br><br>Here's some of it:<br><br>First of all I want to point out all the super Cat 5 hurricanes of the 2005<br>season have been woman's names ending in the letter "A" Katrina, Rita,<br>Wilma. I find that just interesting in itself.<br><br>At the 5 p.m. advisory on Tuesday 10/18/05 the pressure in Wilma was 970<br>mb. In a span of 12 hours Wilma's pressures dropped an absolutey unprecedented<br><br>92 Millibars in Pressure. We are talking a drop of over 2 inches in<br>Atmospheric pressure in that 12 hour time frame. This is unprecedented<br>anywhere on<br>the globe. There is no way naturally a storm can intensify this rapidly. The<br>11 p.m. advisory on Tuesday night had the hurricane at strong category 2. I<br>went to bed about 12:30. I had the radio on and just as Coast To Coast<br>broadcast was starting they broke in with a bulletin that Wilma was now a Cat 4<br><br>with 150 mph winds. This was at 1:05 a.m. 2:43 a.m. another breaking bulletin<br>that Wilma was now a Cat 5 with 175 mph winds with gusts past 200 mph and the<br>strongest hurricane ever in the Atlantic Basin. Just 24 hours ago this time<br>Wilma was a minimal hurricane at 75 mph.<br><br>Are THEY out to break every hurricane record for the Atlantic???. We are<br>tied for the 1933 with the most named storms. We are tied for the 1969 record<br>of 12 hurricanes. We smashed the old record for Major hurricanes. One more<br>hurricane is all they need to set a new record year.<br><br>This in turn will later be blamed on Global Warming just to feed the public<br>more propaganda so The Powers That Be can use that to hide behind their smoke<br>screen. Who is causing this manipulation is anyone's guess at this point as<br>many countries have the Scalar capabilities of guiding and manipulating<br>weather systems.<br><br>(I would use the Quote function but it's a pain-in-the-butt, as it only takes a line at a time for me.)<br><br>Here's what he wrote last night:<br><br>Tonight the moon rose through a layer of HAARP clouds. The colors were <br>putrid ranging from blue/green around the moon and then silvery to yellow, to <br>copper and rust brown colorations on the outter part of the moonglow. The clouds <br>soon disapated to a few scattered HAARP clouds. Nothing out of the ordinary <br>usual crap seen in our skies. Nothing to hint as with other storms a hurr<br>icane is on they way. Although skies have been mostly overcast the past several <br>days. Monday there were some brief clearing and nothing unusual noted. Skies <br>are once again clouding over as I write this with the same putrid <br>colorations around the moon.<br> <br>High pitched tones continue to blast us tonight on a periodic basis the <br>latest being the most pronounced occuring at the start of this missive.<br><br><br>As I've said often, a hurricane simply cannot be predicted with any degree of accuracy, unless it's a "designer storm."<br><br>Check out this animated infrared. It's not heading toward Florida, or you either, Sunny.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/marti/2005_TWENTY-FOUR/webManager/basicGifDisplay.html" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br> --MaryK <p></p><i></i>

[banned]

Last hurricane season, my favorite cousin told me her younger sister, the sister's husband, their 8 year old and their aged mom rode out all together in the bathtub the one that hit Port Charlotte, where they lived, head on, just got things back together and got winged again....I think they got the edge of a third one too. The sister is a real take charge type and she said that's enough, pushed through their move back to Kentucky where the husband's from and where they had lived before Florida. The mother still had some friends there so while they had been afraid she wouldn't want to leave Florida, she did. I'm sure they're very glad they got out. But they had very favorable circumstances: he was able to get a job there and she has her own business that she can do anywhere for a second income in the family so they could afford to relocate, and they had somewhere they had already lived and still have connections so they weren't jumping blindly. Not many people have those advantages--they are often well and truly stuck, or have the wherewithal to flee but not to make a go of the new place, or to return and build again. Sunny, I hope you are able to get assistance to do what you need to do. I wish I had practical advice to offer not just words.<br><br>Do I think there's something funky about these Cat 5s? Yeah, but I'm not sure if it's global warming heating up the water 'naturally', or scalar whatchamacalit (sorry, my friend who is also into the Nazi bases in Antartica knows all about this, Tesla and such) heating up the water artificially.<br><br>As for the names...K-R-W doesn't say anything to me, nor do any of the anagrams of them, but someone into letter numerology, or maybe Kabalah, might come up with something, or maybe if you play Wheel of Fortune and "Add a vowel, Vanna!"<br><br>Let's see<br>KRaW, KReW, KRoW<br>WoRK<br><br>That's all I came up with as words.<br><br>I can't think of anything about the names themselves...Katrina, Rita, Wilma--beyond ending in -a. No resonances of famous people, beyond Rita Hayworth and Wilma Flintstone.<br><br>Sorry, Category 5 hurricanes and the End of the World as we know it are important, sure, but I have to go watch "Lost" because part of me is incurably shallow, and Sawyer is a hottie.<br><br>RrrrOWwwwrrrrRRR!! <p></p><i></i>